Is AI the Visual Version of Auto Tune (or Paint by Numbers)?

[OCBeyer]

So, after years away from 500px, I logged on today and was appalled at the majority of AI generated images that assaulted my senses. It wasn't long ago that I tended to over-process my images, and today I will use AI to eliminate noise (in mostly older photos), but at least they are MY images, taken with a a REAL camera of REAL subjects.

Thing is, even with all the tech sophistication, they are over done, unrealistic, and tacky. Kind of like those old velvet Elvis paintings or the black light posters I hung in my bedroom during high school in the seventies.

OK. Rant over. But that's what makes this forum so great. Real photos by real photographers.

 

[Kevriano]

I despise AI, and Auto Tune is the work of the devil, as a photographer and drummer both really get to me. AI pictures are really quite alarming, given how many people buy into them being real, and I can see it putting photographers and graphic artists out of work.
Auto tune doesn't put people out of work, it creates dreadful sounding music that the mainstream push on us and make stars of tone deaf, musically talentless people.
I will continue with what I do, but it will just be for my pleasure (and maybe some people will like my photos)

 

[bastibe]

Generative images are overused at the moment, and often aesthetically suspect. But as with any fad, it will pass. Ultimately, it'll be just another tool in a graphic artist's toolbelt, and their work will once again be judged on the output, not the tools.

 

[OCBeyer]

I despise AI, and Auto Tune is the work of the devil, as a photographer and drummer both really get to me. AI pictures are really quite alarming, given how many people buy into them being real, and I can see it putting photographers and graphic artists out of work.
Auto tune doesn't put people out of work, it creates dreadful sounding music that the mainstream push on us and make stars of tone deaf, musically talentless people.
I will continue with what I do, but it will just be for my pleasure (and maybe some people will like my photos)

Amen.

 

[OCBeyer]

Generative images are overused at the moment, and often aesthetically suspect. But as with any fad, it will pass. Ultimately, it'll be just another tool in a graphic artist's toolbelt, and their work will once again be judged on the output, not the tools.

One can only hope. Though it's been years and autotune is still an offront to the discerning listener yet seems to be more popular than ever. But even that starts with a unique and original voice.

 

[Irene McC]

What p*sses me off most (well, not most, but one of the many things!) is that photographers - some of them known and good photographers - are mixing in OBVIOUS AI into their Facebook feed, without any comment to identify it as such.
All their gawping followers love and fall over themselves with praise, and OP's soak up all the glory without EVER letting on that it's not at all their original work.

 

[Irene McC]

and PS I also hate auto-tune. Ugggghhhh. Give me Steve Winwood's slightly off pitch voice anytime 🙂

 

[OCBeyer]

What p*sses me off most (well, not most, but one of the many things!) is that photographers - some of them known and good photographers - are mixing in OBVIOUS AI into their Facebook feed, without any comment to identify it as such.
All their gawping followers love and fall over themselves with praise, and OP's soak up all the glory without EVER letting on that it's not at all their original work.

100% agreed. I know a fellow, a superb photographer in his own right, but he now posts nothing but generative AI and modestly accepts the lavish praise. When I first saw his new "work" I hadn't knowingly come across any of this crap yet but it was obvious that something was rotten in Denmark. I mean, how did he get that man to stand atop an immense dune, hundreds of yards away, the setting sun behind him, just as a dramatic sand storm was whipping everything to frenzy. Especially when he lives in Brooklyn NY.

 

[Irene McC]

100% agreed. I know a fellow, a superb photographer in his own right, but he now posts nothing but generative AI and modestly accepts the lavish praise. When I first saw his new "work" I hadn't knowingly come across any of this crap yet but it was obvious that something was rotten in Denmark. I mean, how did he get that man to stand atop an immense dune, hundreds of yards away, the setting sun behind him, just as a dramatic sand storm was whipping everything to frenzy. Especially when he lives in Brooklyn NY.

Ex-ACT-ly !